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Spring Equinox Peace Circle

We have entered into March and the awakening of Spring. At a recent full moon ceremony, I heard an Anishinaabe teaching on Spring that has deeply affected me and has changed the way I relate with Mother Earth at this time.  It has also gentled the way I approach my own intentions and actions – given what Mother Earth is doing to make Spring happen.

I’ve asked Anishinaabe Kwe Mary Anne Caibaiosai, a beautiful friend of mine, to come and share this teaching at Peace Circle. Our sharing time, our journaling time, our carrying forward the intentions and seeds we imagined at Winter Solstice aligned with the life force of Spring and our Mother Earth and her thawing waters. Regardless of what is happening in our world, Mother Earth will gift us with Spring.

So come and join me in this online Peace circle to restore yourself, to attune yourself to ‘right action’ in your intentions and imaginal seeds, to connect with women from all walks of life in a time of respect and appreciation for who we are as brave women in our chaotic world.

As before, we will share stories, make space for journaling, do ceremony and ritual together, and nurture our spirits and hearts and minds and bodies.  Give yourself the gift of circle to awaken and birth new life into your journey and consciousness and join Peace Circle with all us very brave women!

 

Monday, March 21st, 2022   7:00-9:30pm online  (link opens at 6:30pm)

(the Zoom link will be emailed a week before to all who have registered)

Fee:  $45.00 plus HST = $50.85 (see further details below)

**Please invite a friend to join. The MORE DIVERSITY we have, the greater the healing and joy we will know.**

 

PAYMENT / DONATION OPTIONS:

If you decide you would like to join me, please let me know at shirley@shirleylynnmartin.com. I’ve decided that with the all the concerns that have become ever heightened in the last two years through the pandemic, I am offering you some options in registering. Pick the one that best works for you.

Those who identify as BIPOC or LGBTQ+ may join free of any fee. If you still wish to contribute towards your community in some way, I am grateful for you to find a good way to do that.

    1. Pay $50.85 (taxes included) for attending this Peace Circle to me at shirley@shirleylynnmartin.com as the normal fee or donation for my time (e-transfer).
    2. Instead…Give a gift of time, talent, treasure ($), true ally/friendship to a cause supporting Indigenous language and knowledge learning, MMIW, finding the residential school children who never came home, or building and empowering black and brown communities, LBGTQ+, or towards anti-Semitic policy work, or your local food bank or animal fund for those who need vet care (ie. Farley Foundation)
    3. Offer a donation to my Angel Trust Fund which offers BIPOC clients (appropriate to what I can offer) the gift of Reiki and whole life therapies from me or for your friend to attend Peace Circle now or some other time. (Ask me more about this fund if you wish to contribute).

For those who register, please let me know how you will donate and contribute towards the blessing of peace circle, towards blessing this upcoming season of light and towards blessing our communities. Spread the sparkles of peace. Once you register, I will send out the link and peace circle reminders of how we will be together in circle.

Spring Equinox Peace Circle and Ceremony: Nurturing the Soil of our Emergence

Join me in this online Peace Circle and ceremony. Through ritual, ceremony, reflection and connection with the freshness of spring and light, we will nurture our spirits and the seeds of our soul’s dream.

Spring Equinox is a time of celebration where day and night, light and dark are in near equal balance. The Light is getting stronger and warmer as we in the North tilt towards the Sun. As the sun crosses the ‘celestial equator’, the increasing light triggers birds to sing and the sprouting of new life. With fertile soil, and seeds that have been nurtured over the winter, we have the ingredients for richness and abundance. This is an ancient and proven process – plant seeds in rich soil, tend with care, allow Nature to follow its own blueprint – and thus we plant the way for food, medicine and shelter. These are the first blessings of Life.

In this Spring Peace Circle, we will gather in circle and ceremony to support our inner/outer soil and our inner/outer environment to sprout and give fresh life to our planted seeds (dreams and goals). The quality of our soil is the quality of our (seeds) emergence and sprouting to new life.

We all have been impacted by the pandemic, by its heaviness, its longevity and its required awakening to the great inequities in our society. We have experienced many losses, many inconveniences, and for too many, deep disparities of available and essential resources. We need ceremony and ritual to restore hope in our spirit. We need circle and ceremony to be in heart-centred relations, dialogue and honest listening to the real stories shaping our lives. Because one day we will emerge from this pandemic – let us emerge with fertile soil and quality seeds sprouting to what will be the gift of new life.

Benefits of Peace Circle and Ceremony:

  1. Circle and ceremony renew us in its magic!
  2. An invitation to return to your authentic centre and listen for what seeks to emerge in spring’s freshness.
  3. Rituals of spring and a cup of tea …

What We Will Do Together:

  1. Listen to heart stories that transform our own experience and spirit.
  2. Be still and offer gratitude for what is and what has been and what will be.
  3. Join in the collective dream of building a kinder and more honest world together.

Monday, March 22nd, 2021

7:00pm – 9:30pm

(Zoom Room opens at 6:30pm for hellos and greetings)

Cost: $40.00 plus HST ($45.20) to be pre-paid via e-transfer

or via PayPal (please note a user fee will be applied)

Online Purchase

Upon registration and payment, circle members will receive an email of preparation and reflection questions and activities intended to encourage circle members to join with open and warm hearts, open and wondering minds, open and grounded bodies, open and brave spirits.

Limited spots available so register early. Register with Shirley Lynn at shirley@shirleylynnmartin.com

An Angel Scholarship Fund has been set up for to anonymously welcome and support Black, Indigenous and other racialized persons, as well as LGBQT2+ people with limited financial resources to be able to attend Peace Circles.

For anyone who is able, an additional $5, $10, $20 (or whatever amount you would like to contribute) toward the Angel Scholarship Fund for current and future Peace Circle scholarships, will be received with deep gratitude. Contact Shirley Lynn for more details and to contribute.